May 2025
Molt Search Season Kickoff Webinar!
Molt Searchers and those curious to learn more are invited to a lunch hour season kick-off to learn about 2025 protocol updates, green crab status/trends, and even some science being done on the Molt Search dataset. Register here to receive the Zoom link.
Find out more »Molt Search Public Training (Whatcom)
Are you a beachwalker? A shell collector? Keep an eye out for invasive green crabs while you do by participating in “Molt Search“, a new early detection community science program by Washington Sea Grant & WSU Extension designed to help managers direct resources to undersearched or green crab detected beaches. It’s a systematic beach walk, where you spend 20 person-minutes collecting and identifying all crab molts you find and submit that information via the MyCoast app. Learn more about the program…
Find out more »June 2025
Molt Search Public Training (San Juan County)
Are you a beachwalker? A shell collector? Keep an eye out for invasive green crabs while you do by participating in “Molt Search“, a new early detection community science program by Washington Sea Grant & WSU Extension designed to help managers direct resources to undersearched or green crab detected beaches. It’s a systematic beach walk, where you spend 20 person-minutes collecting and identifying all crab molts you find and submit that information via the MyCoast app. Learn more about the program…
Find out more »Molt Search Public Training (San Juan County)
Are you a beachwalker? A shell collector? Keep an eye out for invasive green crabs while you do by participating in “Molt Search“, a new early detection community science program by Washington Sea Grant & WSU Extension designed to help managers direct resources to undersearched or green crab detected beaches. It’s a systematic beach walk, where you spend 20 person-minutes collecting and identifying all crab molts you find and submit that information via the MyCoast app. Learn more about the program…
Find out more »Salish Sea-wide Molt Blitz!
Washington Sea Grant and Washington State University Extension have teamed up to launch a new volunteer-based early detection program to complement the existing Crab Team monitoring network. Already trained? Stop by your local shoreline on June 20th to complete a Molt Search independently, contributing to Washington's largest single-day dataset on molt distribution across the Salish Sea. Need to get trained or want to participate with others? Shorelines across the region will be activated by local partners on June 20th (or…
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